Science: Whence Cosmic Rays?

Last week in Paris Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan reiterated in a paper
read before the International Electrical Congress his belief that
cosmic rays are the "birth cries" of atoms newly born in the cold
spaces between the stars. His paper was written before he heard of a
report published last week in the Physical Review by his fellow Nobel
Prizewinner, Dr. Arthur Holly Compton, now in Peru. Old is the quarrel
between Dr. Millikan and Sir James Hopwood Jeans, who calls cosmic
rays the "death wails" of matter on the stars. Dr. Millikan's friend...